Today in Rhein-Main: Frankfurt's mayor under pressure

Good evening, the

allegations against Frankfurt Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD), which were briefly reported

The public prosecutor's office had been investigating for a year on suspicion of taking advantage, now she sees the time for the matter to be clarified in court: Feldmann is said to have been involved when in 2015 his partner at the time and later wife became the head of a daycare center at the Arbeiterwohlfahrt unusually good pay and company car.

Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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The CDU parliamentary group

im Römer demanded Feldmann's resignation on Tuesday.

But it's opposition, you expect something like that.

More remarkable: The SPD, Feldmann's party, also published a very clear statement on Tuesday.

If the indictment were to be admitted by the court, it would be "a heavy burden for the city of Frankfurt and the office of the mayor," according to the Social Democrats.

This is what it looks like when a party moves away from one of its politicians.

It will now be important for the Roman coalition to find a voice; it is the first serious test for the four-party alliance.

What does the FAZ offer?

Anna-Sophia Lang, Mechthild Harting and Rainer Schulze summarize the news situation, explain what the allegations against Feldmann are about and present the legal situation, Carsten Knop portrays the mayor.

Now just a little

on at least one other topic, a very light-hearted one: Even in the corona pandemic, the lottery is still being played, even more than ever.

The outgoing head of Lotto Hessen, Heinz-Georg Sundermann, presented figures on Tuesday according to which the company paid out 453 million euros in profits to Hessians in 2021, compared to only 334 million the year before.

Only the environmental lottery, which was once introduced at the instigation of the Greens, is still languishing.

Game stakes of three million euros throughout the year are a joke.

For Sundermann it was his last appearance, the sixty-six-year-old follows as the new Lotto Hessen boss Martin Blach, board member of the Eberbach Monastery Foundation.

Patricia Andreae from the Economics Department reports on the Lotto press conference,

And

the Frankfurt Museum Society is also complaining about a decline in subscribers +++ the job market in Offenbach has reached the pre-crisis level again +++ Stada from Bad Vilbel is increasing the number of employees.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours, Manfred Koehler

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Sunshine throughout the region, plus temperatures of up to 20 degrees.

At night clear skies with a degree, but ground frost.

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Regina Fehler

, Managing Director of Dom-Römer GmbH, Frankfurt (65);

, Director of the Rüsselsheim City and Industry Museum (58);

, Head of Helvetia Insurance Germany, Vice President of the IHK Frankfurt (55).